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These were the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king in his service.
You shall break them with a rod of iron,
and dash them in pieces like a potters vessel.
You turn things upside down!
Shall the potter be regarded as the clay?
Shall the thing made say of its maker,
He did not make me;
or the thing formed say of the one who formed it,
He has no understanding?
its breaking is like that of a potters vessel
that is smashed so ruthlessly
that among its fragments not a sherd is found
for taking fire from the hearth,
or dipping water out of the cistern.
I stirred up one from the north, and he has come,
from the rising of the sun he was summoned by name.*
He shall trample* on rulers as on mortar,
as the potter treads clay.
Woe to you who strive with your Maker,
earthen vessels with the potter!*
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, What are you making?
or Your work has no handles?
Yet, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
Come, go down to the potters house, and there I will let you hear my words.
So I went down to the potters house, and there he was working at his wheel.
The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potters hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to him.
Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, just as this potter has done? says the Lord. Just like the clay in the potters hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.
Now, therefore, say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Thus says the Lord: Look, I am a potter shaping evil against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, all of you from your evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.
Thus said the Lord: Go and buy a potters earthenware jug. Take with you* some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests,
and shall say to them: Thus says the Lord of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potters vessel, so that it can never be mended. In Topheth they shall bury until there is no more room to bury.
The precious children of Zion,
worth their weight in fine gold
how they are reckoned as earthen pots,
the work of a potters hands!
As you saw the feet and toes partly of potters clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but some of the strength of iron shall be in it, as you saw the iron mixed with the clay.
Then the Lord said to me, Throw it into the treasury*this lordly price at which I was valued by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them into the treasury* in the house of the Lord.
New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicized Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. http://nrsvbibles.org
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